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# Founding Engineer, Platform

- **Company:** Digital Waffle
- **Location:** San Francisco, CA, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $200,000.0 - $300,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Artificial Intelligence, Software as a Service, Cursor, PostgreSQL, Redis, TypeScript, Large Language Models, Backend, Agentic-AI, Claude, Data Pipelines
- **Published:** November 7, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.juju.com/job/28_25304_2f5a8fb111c8d9ff518b51396236be4a

## About the Role

* 5+ years as a backend or platform engineer, with real production experience at scale
 * Strong TypeScript, with genuine comfort in functional patterns (Effect, fp-ts or equivalent)
 * Deep experience with Postgres, Redis and the realities of running stateful systems in production
 * Track record owning problems end to end, from scoping to shipping to supporting live customers
 * Comfort making architectural calls with incomplete information in a startup environment
 * Experience building systems where reliability, data consistency and cost are first-class concerns
 * Fluent with coding agents (Claude, Codex, Cursor and similar) as part of day-to-day engineering
 * Happy with a hybrid San Francisco Bay Area setup and the pace of a seed-stage team, * Prior experience as a founding or very early engineer at a fast-growing startup
 * Background in workflow engines, orchestration systems, data pipelines or multi-tenant SaaS infrastructure
 * Exposure to AI/LLM product work, agentic systems or eval infrastructure
 * Experience with ElectricSQL, TanStack or sync-based architectures
 * Prior work shipping to developer or GTM audiences